Matthew Norman

Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2008, the political commentator Matthew Norman also writes The Independent’s media diary.

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Matthew Norman: Has Cameron's lucky streak just run out?

An exceedingly bad week for the PM has implanted long-term doubts about his judgement

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Matthew Norman: GPs - like glorified plumbers only with shorter hours

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

The British have only one national religion, Nigel Lawson famously observed, and it is the NHS. The former Chancellor was bang on the money back in the 80s, and today most of us still worship the great monolith. For all that, one sniffs a rise in heretical questioning, and even agnosticism. No sooner have the angels of geriatric nursing been stripped of their wings than the local priests, our general practitioners, come under attack.

Matthew Norman: Who are we to demonise a man who inspires such loyalty?

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Matthew Norman: If Fox was a McDonald's manager, Werritty would pop up asking, 'Fries with that?'

You can get away with being loathed – but not ridiculed

Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Matthew Norman: For Chris Christie, the presidential bandwagon crashed yesterday.

Matthew Norman: It really doesn't matter what Ed said

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

For all the triangulating between baddies rich and poor, Miliband will never be the Bill Clinton of Hampstead

Matthew Norman: The Met chief's error was elementary

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

The real story here is not one of a threat to press freedom but one of monumental police stupidity

Matthew Norman: Even a benign dictator would struggle to tackle this sickness

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

With self-delusional British smugness, we congratulated ourselves on our tolerance, because we learnt to keep the filthy racist epithets to ourselves

Matthew Norman: When celebrities swap jobs, career suicide ensues

Monday, 15 August 2011

If there are many difficult lessons to be learned from recent events here's one that even the most obtuse can quickly master: stick to what you know. Much attention has been focused on David Starkey's Newsnight self-immolation, and rightly so. If you go sampling the words of Enoch Powell, as The Beatles so nearly had it, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

Matthew Norman: Cameron's biggest test has arrived. Is he up to the job?

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

The Prime Minister looks desperate. Desperately slow to react, desperately short of gravitas, and desperately remote from the amalgam of pressures

Matthew Norman: Why it's always Christmas in Rebekah's world

Monday, 8 August 2011

At a time such as this, when we awake from nightmares of the soup-kitchen queue and grab the laptop to check what manner of mayhem has ravaged Eastern stock markets while we slept, we must avoid resentment towards those better protected than ourselves. So join me in celebrating Rupert Murdoch's soul-gladdening metamorphosis from Herod into Jesus Christ.